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Artful Methods for Systemic Change

Slow Scholarship in Action

Artful Methods for Systemic Change explores the possibilities of arts-based educational research through a collaboratively curated collection of creative, dialogic, and reflective scholarly practices. 

Advancing the concept of “exquisite curation” as both methodology and provocation, this book brings together contributors working across arts education, teacher education, a/r/tography, museum practice, community-based inquiry, and creative pedagogy to examine how artistic practice can function not only as a subject of research, but as a mode of inquiry, relational engagement, and knowledge production.

Structured as an ongoing conversation between authors, editors, images, and creative forms of expression, the collection challenges conventional distinctions between theory and practice, research and art-making, scholarship and creative process. Across the volume, visual materials, critical reflections, dialogic exchanges, and experimental forms of writing are woven together to generate unexpected connections and encounters while exploring alternative approaches to educational research, collaborative inquiry, and creative pedagogy.

Central to the project is a sustained engagement with curation, relational editorialship, and forms of “slow scholarship” that resist the pressures of speed, productivity, and conventional academic structures. The collection foregrounds care, attentiveness, responsiveness, and imaginative connection as vital scholarly practices, while also reflecting critically on the institutional and epistemological assumptions that continue to shape educational research and creative practice.

Combining theoretical reflection with grounded examples from arts education and teacher training, the book offers an accessible yet intellectually ambitious contribution to contemporary discussions of arts-based research, postcolonial and new materialist methodologies, collaborative scholarship, and creative inquiry. The result is a collection that positions artful methods not as supplementary to research, but as transformative practices capable of expanding the boundaries of scholarship, pedagogy, and systemic change within and beyond educational contexts.


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Table of Contents

List of figures Table of digital assets Acknowledgements Storying the arts, creativity, and education through non-traditional research: An exquisite curation Geraldine Burke*, Michelle Ludecke*   Curation 1 Encounters with voice/communityEncounter 1 Editors’ introduction Layers of trust through film-based research: Enacting community co-design and resistance Emma-Jaye Gavin*, Jillian Holt* X Olivia Millard*, Nicole Rinehart*, Ana Mantilla* Encounter 2 Editors’ introduction ‘It’s as if you’re there’: Learning in the liminal Deira Nebauer* X Michelle Ludecke* Encounter 3 Editors’ introduction Relational a/r/tography with/in the cultural interface: Stories of Ethnodrama and Printmaking Angela Foley* X Danielle Hradsky*   Curation 2 Encounters and experimentations with arts methodsEncounter 4 Editors’ introduction Co-dreaming and imaginal leapings Michael Fisher*, Barbara Bickel*, and Miriam Potts* Encounter 5 Editors’ introduction Cultivating aesthetic agility: Adaptive learning with the extra/ordinary Koichi Kasahara* X Geraldine Burke* Encounter 6 Editors’ introduction Meeting in the middle: Material agencies and iterative conversations Amy Mortimer* X Nnenna Okore* Encounter 7 Editors’ introduction What lies beneath? Mark Ammermann* X Lleah Smith*   Curation 3 Encounters with teacher capacity: Mentoring through the artsEncounter 8 Editors’ introduction Trusting the messiness: Towards an artful ecosystem for educators Katie Hotko* X Sue Girak*, Jodie Davidson* Encounter 9: Editors’ introduction Fostering passionate performing arts experts Susan Chapman* X Renée Crawford*, Louise Jenkins*   Curation 4 Re-encounters through the arts: Exploring institutional diversityRe-encounter 10 Editors’ introduction Coming together: Sharing abstracts with each other Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford* Artmaking to address complex environmental and sustainability issues in teacher education Kerry Power* with responses by Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford* Jumping on the Bitmoji bandwagon: Artful learning from a lockdown phenomenon Helen Grimmett* with responses by Kerry Power*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford* Supporting pre-service teachers in examining childhoods in a changing world Linda Henderson* with responses by Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Nish Belford* Exploring the reciprocity of artmaking and pedagogical learning in developing ‘artistry of teaching’ for pre-service art teachers Nish Belford* with responses by Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson* Flexi Bumps Kerry Power* X Helen Grimmett* X Linda Henderson* X Nish Belford*   Notes on Contributors Glossary

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